The discovery of ‘new variant’ Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) was announced in March 1996. By mid-1997, several lines of evidence linked vCJD with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), the ...

Dr. Lynda Britton, [] of the Louisiana Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, presented an overview of the characteristics and causes of a number of spongiform encephalopathies, in a symposium held ...